Columns

Who’d have thought you had to come to Grand Rapids to become a famous artist in New York?” Glenn Rogers, on location at ArtPrize last week. Local entrepreneur and tennis legend Glenn Rogers and I were in Grand Rapids, Mich., last week for business and happened on one of the world’s largest art contests with the richest purse. Who would have thought you had to travel to the heartland to find it? It sparked some thoughts on expanding Laguna’s art horizons.

Let me state the obvious: Theme parks are fun. But do you know how to make them more fun? Go without your kids. Seriously. I went to Knott’s Scary Farm with a girlfriend and had a blast.

Blue Chips Signal Rally Ahead     The stock market remains unusually erratic. It went up five straight days, then dropped four straight days, losing 6% in...

In Search of Wall Space At Zinc's the other day, I noticed a display of elegant prints by Sheryl Seltzer, the most recent of their...

Summer Report Card! Summer 2011 report card: weather, B+; water temp, C+; surf, D. All but five days had ample sunshine, a vast improvement over...

Confessions of a Cat Parent   Nine years ago this month my husband Alfredo and I traveled to Denmark and Paris. When we got home we...

The Gain From Spain Goes Mainly To The Sane The price swings of the last few years produced emotional swings. They also have created some...

Her Own Two Feet Two I got a job. Really? Yeah, Dancing. Dancing?   It’s good money. Is it? It’s nights. It would be.   Could I use your car to go to work? Just until...

Quieting Down The moon has been vying for center stage lately. The official full moon for September is Monday, the 12th. It has been my...

Energetic Atmosphere! Two thunderstorms in the same week rumbled across our region with some pretty intense stuff. That hasn’t happened around here since 1998 at...

Wishes Do Come True   After weeks of wishing for the school year to begin, my wish came true. Surprisingly, both Meekma girls were as anxious...

Tribute to a Tragedy This last Sunday in Heisler Park, precisely at 11 a.m. on Sept. 11, the 10-year dedication began with bagpipes playing...

“ABC Wide World of Sports did a five minute segment on the Aquathon in 1996 finding it one of the new "extreme sports." Aside...

The Guns Of August: The Fears Of September September should offer some relief from the market’s guns of August, the worst August in 10 years....

Asked and Answered Grampa I have to do a survey for school. O.K. shoot.   I have to write down your age, education and work history, Then I ask...